EP1468269B1 - Method and device for determining penetration of gaseous substances through a membrane - Google Patents

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EP1468269B1
EP1468269B1 EP02711556A EP02711556A EP1468269B1 EP 1468269 B1 EP1468269 B1 EP 1468269B1 EP 02711556 A EP02711556 A EP 02711556A EP 02711556 A EP02711556 A EP 02711556A EP 1468269 B1 EP1468269 B1 EP 1468269B1
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  • This invention relates to a method and device for measuring the penetration of gases through a package material. More specific, it relates to a method for predicting the transmission rate of a gaseous substance through the walls of a package as a function of time from a limited number of measured concentrations of the gaseous substance within the package. Even more specific, the invention relates to a method and device that is effective, versatile and relatively inexpensive for testing the oxygen transmission rates into packages employed for instance in the food and pharmaceutical industries.
  • Oxygen enters into many reactions which affect the shelf life of foods, e.g. microbial growth, colour changes in fresh and cured meats, oxidation of lipids and consequent rancidity, and senescence of fruit and vegetables.
  • the shelf life of many foods is therefore determined by the oxygen transmission rate (OTR) of the material used to package the food, especially during long-term storage.
  • barrier packages within the food industry, since they provide a cost efficient and practical manner of packaging food products while offering good protection from detrimental gases in the ambient air.
  • the "barrier plastic" portion of the food packaging market is the fastest growing segment, and there is a world wide activity in achieving new and improved plastic barrier materials for food packaging, which can offer better protection against gas penetration and longer shelf life for a wide range of products.
  • the detector becomes oversaturated and may be damaged if exposed to higher oxygen concentrations such as for instance in ordinarily air.
  • care must be taken not to overexpose the oxygen sensor.
  • the conventional method is cumbersome, expensive, and has a limited capacity such that it is usually restricted to testing packaging materials at non-realistic temperatures and air humidities.
  • the main objective of this invention is to provide a method and device for determining the transmission rate of a gaseous substance into a package as a function of time.
  • Another objective of this invention is to provide a method and device for determining of the oxygen transmission rate into packages under realistic field temperature, barometric pressure, and relative humidity conditions that can be expected for a wide variety of for instance food or pharmaceutical products.
  • OTR oxygen transmission rate
  • p 0 is the partial pressure of oxygen in the ambient air
  • p is the partial pressure of oxygen within the package
  • t time
  • D is the diffusion constant
  • S is the solubility coefficient
  • A is the surface area of the package
  • V is the volume of the package
  • L is the thickness of the barrier material
  • T is the temperature of the gas in the package
  • k is the Boltzmann constant.
  • Eqn. (3) can be employed to determine ⁇ from only two measurements of the partial pressure of oxygen inside the package, since by applying Eqn.
  • ⁇ 1 t 1 - t 2 ⁇ ln ⁇ p 2 - p 0 p 1 - p 0
  • p 2 is the partial pressure of oxygen at time t 2 .
  • ⁇ may be determined without knowing the material and dimensional characteristics of the package. This allows determining the product of the often unknown diffusion constant and solubility coefficient for the packaging material, since the other constants and variables in Eqn. (2) are straightforward to measure/determine.
  • the oxygen transmission rate (OTR) as a measure of the oxygen penetration into the package instead of the resulting oxygen concentration which is the outcome of Eqn. (3).
  • the OTR is normally expressed as dV oxygen /dt, where the oxygen volume V Oxygen is referred to the pressure of the standard atmosphere.
  • Eqn. 4 and 5 constitutes an especially practical tool for predicting the oxygen penetration into food packages as a function of time, since all that is needed as input are two measurements of the actual oxygen concentration in the gas inside the package at two different times and the volume of the package.
  • Eqn. 3 is a general theoretical expression for the partial pressure of oxygen inside a package (or volumetric flow of oxygen into the package, Eqn. 5) due to diffusion through the package walls which is based on the fundamental physics involved when oxygen molecules diffuses through a material, it will give a robust and reliable prediction valid for virtually any ambient condition the package may encounter as long as the ambient conditions are essentially stable during the measurements.
  • the commercially established methods for measuring OTR will normally measure the oxygen penetration through the barrier material in the case when one side of the material faces a gas stream with a constant oxygen content and the other side faces an oxygen free gas.
  • the driving force for the diffusion process is therefore always at a maximum in the conventional method, in contrast to the inventive method of this invention where the diffusion process faces an increasing oxygen concentration on the inside of the package which results in a corresponding decrease in the driving force.
  • OTR values as determined by the inventive method with conventional values, and which are the standard in the field of food packages one should use the values for the initial period when there is no oxygen concentration within the package and the oxygen in the ambient air is exposed to an maximum driving force for penetrating the barrier material.
  • the oxygen transmission rate at time zero can be given as: d V Oxygen d t ⁇
  • inventive method is based on exploiting the theoretical expressions for predicting the OTR into a package. That is, the inventive method can be summarised as follows:
  • the inventive method has an advantage over prior methods since it gives the penetration rate of a gaseous substance into a package for all times, regardless of the ambient conditions as long as they are fairly stable during the measurements.
  • Conventional methods for measuring OTR are confined to standardised conditions which simulates an oxygen free package (maximum achievable driving force for the diffusion process).
  • the inventive method can be applied for any type of food package at any condition they may face, including temperatures below 0°C.
  • the inventive method does not require that the interior of the package at the beginning of the first period is absolutely free from the gaseous substance. All that is required is that the concentration inside the package is sufficiently low compared to the concentration outside the package that a diffusion process is emerging. In practice this means that the interior should only be rather low of the gaseous substance at the beginning of the measurements, and this gives a considerable ease in practising the inventive method since absolute removal of a gaseous substance is hard to achieve.
  • any conventional method for measuring the concentration of the gas in question inside the package can be employed, including for instance analysers that must have gas samples withdrawn from the interior of the package and analysers that can detect the gas concentration through the material wall. It is also envisioned analysers that withdraw a gas sample, performs the gas concentration determination and then reinjects the gas sample into the package.
  • analysers that require a withdrawn gas sample that is being subsequently discharged
  • a change of the package volume will induce an error in the estimate, and this error should be minimised by minimising the volume of the extracted gas sample.
  • a preferred instrument is MOCON/Toray oxygen analyser LC-700F with a zirconium oxide cell (Modern Controls Inc, Minnesota, USA) with a system accuracy of ⁇ 2 % in the interval 0-50 % O 2 (with two decimals) and ⁇ 3 % in the interval 0-0.5 % O 2 (with three decimals).
  • the package should be flushed with sufficiently amounts of pure N 2 prior the measurements in order to ensure that the interior of the package is almost free of oxygen.
  • the MOCON/Toray oxygen analyser LC-700F requires that a gas sample from the interior of the package is taken out and inserted into the zirconium oxide cell. The gas sample is being discharged after the measurement.
  • a sample taking device that is sealing of the package during testing and sample taking is required. It is preferred to obtain this by penetrating the package wall with a hollow bolt which is threaded in both ends and equipped with a centre flange containing a sealing gasket.
  • the package material between the flange with the sealing gasket by screwing on a retaining nut with another sealing gasket onto the inward protruding end of the bolt, such that the only escape route for gas inside the package is through the interior of the hollow bolt.
  • the hollow interior of the bolt is sealed off from the ambient air by for instance screwing on an endnut with a barrier septum onto the outward protruding end of the hollow bolt, one may take out gas samples from the interior of the package without breaking the sealing by inserting a needle of a syringe through the barrier septum.
  • FIG. 1 An example of a preferred embodiment of a syringe for taking out an exact amount of gas is illustrated in Figure 1 .
  • the syringe 1 is connected to a supply 4 of pure nitrogen and a needle 3 by a three-way valve 2.
  • the syringe can be flushed with pure nitrogen before inserting the needle into the package through the sealing septum, and the syringe may be filled with a controllable amount of pure nitrogen gas that is to be injected into the package.
  • the syringe can be filled with an exact equal amount of gas from the interior of the package, and the syringe with needle is withdrawn from the package and inserted into the oxygen analyser. Finally, the gas sample is injected in order to obtain the oxygen concentration of the sample.
  • the needle syringe and barrier septum may be used to empty the package for gas and then inject an inert gas for several cycles in order to flush out virtually all oxygen inside the package.
  • FIG. 2 A typical measuring procedure is illustrated schematically in Figure 2 , and may be described as follows:
  • the Toray instrument was always calibrated before starting the measurement of each series of initial or final O 2 -concentration.
  • the instrument was calibrated towards air in the upper part of the scale and towards a reference gas containing 0.21 % O 2 in N 2 in the lower part of the scale.
  • the inventive method can be employed to make screening tests for a packaging material at various conditions expected to be found during handling of the food package in commercial use, and employ these tests to produce graphs over the OTR-value as a function of time for a set of expected ambient conditions.
  • These graphs may constitute a very useful instrument for performing spot tests of package materials, since they provide a data bank which may be employed to check whether new packages behave like the packages employed in the screening tests. That is, screening tests of a certain packaging material at the conditions found in food stores according to the inventive method may be used to produce graphs (such as the graph running from t 0 to F in Fig. 2 ) of the oxygen transmission rate as a function of time (for an empty package, no oxygen being consumed) at these conditions. Then, e.g. a manufacturer etc. of the food packaging material can perform spot testing by simply take out an empty package from the production line, let it stay for a certain time period at the expected condition, and then take out a gas sample and measure the oxygen concentration inside the package. This value will immediately tell whether the late package behaved like the packages employed for the screening tests, since the spot test oxygen concentration should be lying on the screen test graph if the OTR-values are equal.
  • this device may be in the form of a pocket sized integrated unit containing a penetration device, an oxygen analyser, and means for displaying the determined oxygen concentration. It may also contain means for storing the screening tests and software that performs the comparison between the spot test and screening tests, in order to make the apparatus very practical in use for large series of spot tests.
  • This device will therefore constitute a very simple and relatively inexpensive way of obtaining spot testing in the food package industry.
  • Today, the conventional methods for measuring the OTR are so cumbersome and expensive, that regularly spot testing of package materials are not practically feasible.
  • the packages and materials were: 1) 300 ml polyvinylchloride (PVC)-bottles (Grathwol AS, Glostrup, Denmark); 2) 960 ml thermoformed trays; top web: a laminate of 20 ⁇ m polyamide (PA) and 60 ⁇ m polyethylene (PE), base web: a laminate of 530-550 ⁇ m PVC and 45 ⁇ m PE with 3 % ethylenevinylacetate (EVA) (Dixie Union, Germany); 3) 540 ml high density polyethylene (HDPE)-bottles (MG Plast AS, Moss, Norway); 4) 500 ml polypropylene (PP)-bottles (MG Plast AS, Moss, Norway); and 5) 175 ml PS-cup (Dynopack Stj ⁇ rdal, Norway). It was anticipated that the selected packages would have different
  • Ox-Tran measurements were performed using a Mocon Ox-tran 100 twin (Modern Controls Inc, Minnesota, USA). Standard specifications from designation F 1307 - 90 of the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) were applied.
  • the permeant was oxygen in ambient air; the gradient was thus 0,21 atm.
  • the packages were conditioned for 18-24 hours before measuring the Ox-Tran-values.
  • (HDPE-bottle c ): 3 0.38 ⁇ 0.01 a ml O 2 /day b elapsed time days between measurement of initial and final O 2 -concentration c this HDPE-bottle had a different production number than the HDPE-bottles above that the standard deviation can be expected to be slightly higher when using the inventive method compared to the Ox-Tran method.
  • the inventive method can therefore be considered to be a reliable and precise alternative method to the Ox-Tran-method for measuring OTR of whole packages.
  • the equipment required in the inventive method is relatively inexpensive and the capacity is high, and the method is flexible with respect to the range of OTR-values and to package size.
  • inventive method has been described as a method for determining the oxygen penetration into food packages, it is obvious for a skilled person that the inventive method can be applied for determining penetration of any other specie that possibly could diffuse through a material, by simply substitute the nitrogen gas (if necessary) and apply an appropriate inert gas and analysing equipment that is able to detect the actual specie. It is also fairly obvious that this method is far from constricted to food packages, but can be employed for all types of packages of any size, shape, material, intended use etc.

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